1. Biography of Mount Guo: Yak, also a cow, black, out of the southwest.

2. "Compendium of Materia Medica": Yak, out of Lintao and Southwest Gansu, bison is also raised by many people. Shaped like a buffalo, it is long and powerful, can carry loads, flies as fast as a fly, and has a thick stem. There is black hair on the mustache, knees, tail, back and beard, and it is long. Its tail is the longest, as big as a bucket, and it takes good care of itself. When the grass took the bait, it stopped. The ancients used it as silk, but now people think it is a tassel hat. If the hair is mixed with white, it will be dyed red. "Dream of Yesterday" said that the bamboo cattle in Xixia weighed several hundred Jin, with extremely long horns and yellow and black, which made the bow extremely powerful.

Pinyin name má o niú ji m: o

English famous yak horn

Alias yak, yak, stubborn cow, hairy rhinoceros, cat cow, bamboo cow and hairy cow.

source

Source of medicinal materials: horns of yak, an animal of Bovine family.

Latin animal and plant mineral name: yak.

Harvesting and storage: When yak is slaughtered, the horns are sawed off and dried in the shade or at low temperature.

Yak, which looks like a cow in its original form, has a stout body and weighs more than 500 kilograms. The hair on its head and back is short and smooth. There is a bulge on the shoulder. Long hair, especially tail hair, scattered on the side, neck, chest, abdomen, tail, chin and throat. The whole body is dark brown and the nose and mouth are slightly white. The limbs are short and thick; The angle of male beast is large, and the angle of female cover is small. Cape Quillo is flat, and the two corners are far apart. The angle is upward first, then outward, the proximal end is inward and upward, and the corner tip is slightly bent backward.

Habitat distribution

Ecological environment: Living in a desolate place on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, I am afraid of heat, ice and snow. Like wandering, constant ten regiments, feeding on coarse grass in plateau valleys.

Distribution of resources: It is distributed on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, reaching Kunlun Mountain, Altun Mountain and Qilian Mountain in the north, northwest Sichuan in the east and Tibet in the south. On the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Yaks have been domesticated.

Sour taste; Salty; Sexual apathy

Return to the heart; Liver; Stomach meridian

Indications: clearing away heat and toxic materials; Cool the blood and extinguish the wind. Mainly high fever, convulsion and epilepsy; Blood-heat bleeding

Usage and dosage: decocted in water, 15-30g.

Various factions discuss Compendium of Materia Medica: treating convulsion, epilepsy, toxic heat and various blood diseases.

Excerpts from Chinese Materia Medica